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Author Topic: MPAA - still not preventing piracy Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-10-2010 10:06 PM                    This has nothing to do with Capitalism, Ian.  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 05-11-2010 12:11 PM                     The simple truth, as stated earlier, is that if YOU can see the movie then SOMEONE can and WILL make a copy of it and sell it.  |  IP: Logged Todd McCracken Master Film Handler Posts: 263 From: Northridge, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 05-11-2010 03:44 PM                    http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.32714 And a 50$ cable will make this all redundant.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-11-2010 05:03 PM                     Someone email that link to Bob Pisano, president and interim chief executive officer of the MPAA. Good grief...such time and effort wasted for absolutely no reason. Email to bob_pisano@imadipshit.com  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 05-11-2010 05:24 PM                     Mark. Have to agree to disagree on that point. It is an extremely fine line between "fair and equitable commerce" and greed, and as seen with the Goldman Sachs case, it is not hard to cross that line. But as Jake and Todd have both shown, this is a moot point as the studio's war on piracy just won't work unless the studios have TOTAL control over how their product is used. Crap code, farting soundtracks, knobbled analogue signal paths won't work. Capitalism can be very beneficial for the greater good, but in this case, where is the greater good? In my opinion, (and it is only my opinion) taking control over an exhibitor's projection equipment, and wanting control over how the BUYER ( e.g domestic or professional purchaser) of studio product is just greed.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-11-2010 08:40 PM                    Greed can exist in any economic system. The difference with free market capitalism is that it allows the market to reject greedy behavior if it chooses to. You can blame the people if that's your argument but it doesn't make sense to blame the system. Either way, I don't see how arguing economic models makes any sense in this thread so I'll stop here.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-12-2010 10:14 AM                     When I was living in China, I probably bought about 100 DVDs. All of them copies. Only a couple of them were filmed by someone in a theater. The newer titles were copies of screeners. They all had the correct artwork on the boxes and discs. The shop owner would always pull out a box of new releases when I came in. If I asked for something they didn't have, they had it the next day. I even started asking for titles that were starting in theaters in the states the next day, and the owner would tell me he'd have it the next day. They all were in English and had the full menu. I would watch them with my girlfriend and turn on the Chinese subtitles for her. One day I went in and the owner was sitting at his desk with a stack of blank DVDs and blank covers making and printing everything as I was looking around.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-12-2010 02:22 PM                        If intelligence is sent over a wire or wires anywhere in the system, it can be recorded with a high enough bandwidth analog recorder. No such recorder may be available, but that doesn't mean that someone couldn't develop one by modifying tape recording parameters.  |  IP: Logged

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